The other topic never to bring up in GD: Cursive Writing (or lack thereof)

[kentauros]

It's bad enough that the Lounge can't figure out which way to do a roll of toilet paper (never-loaded and sitting on top of the toilet tank) but there are still people insisting on bring up the dreaded cursive topic in GD.

Won't they ever learn?!

[elleng]

1. Heck no!

[TexasTowelie]

2. Louisiana reaffirmed this week that they want students to learn cursive writing. nt

[Petrushka]

3. --->

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[sarge43]

4. Shhh. We don't want them to know. n/t

[Petrushka]

5. Not to worry. They don't know how to use the CJDR**

And, absentminded me: Where did I bury the map?







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**Cracker Jack Decoder Ring

[pinboy3niner]

6. Too late

[Petrushka]

14. Ootay atelay?

Amnday!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. Instead of 'emojis' we'll call it 'I'm-old-jeez'

[Petrushka]

13. They'll need to find another Rosetta Stone before we're done.

[NV Whino]

15. My cursive was always a secret code

My grandmother used to say my handwriting was so bad I should be a doctor.

[Petrushka]

17. LOL

My husband thought his cursive was bad, but it wasn't. His printing was worse.

[jeff47]

8. It's absolutely critical that our quill pen not drip ink on the parchment!!

( :ducks: )

[OriginalGeek]

9. I'm 52 and remember the names of exactly 2 elementary school teachers

I never went to the same school two years in a row until I was in 7th and 8th grade. And on top of that, we never moved during the summer - it was always in the middle of the school year - so I had a lot of elementary school teachers.

I remember Mrs. Henry at Jacksonville's Hyde Park Elementary 3rd grade because she was so kind and encouraging to me. I'm sorry she had to deal with me but she handled it with grace and style and TLC and probably saved some headaches for future teachers.

Because before her there was Mrs. Ockerman from a school in Kentucky in 2nd grade. My mom had taught me pretty early how to write in cursive so I was proud of myself and eager to show-off one day when I wrote my name on my assignment in cursive. Mrs. Ockerman was having none of that. She had never said we couldn't write in cursive but I guess it was supposed to be understood that since we had not been taught in class how to write in cursive we were not supposed to try it. My punishment was to be stood up in front of class and whipped (with a wooden paddle) for not following directions. Then marched over to a neighboring class to be whipped again so they too would know what happened to little boys who wrote in cursive. That was the point I stopped caring if I was "behaving like a good boy". Fuck her.

I got into a lot more trouble in grade school than most of my peers however Mrs. Henry probably did save me from getting into much more trouble.

[Initech]

10. Was someone cursive writing at an Olive Garden while breastfeeding a pit bull?

[kentauros]

11. No, they were writing notecards and professional correspondence by hand-printing

and were admonished by the Olive Garden staff for not writing in cursive and for using a childish method

[kentauros]

12. I'm being mean to GD.

I keep bumping that thread with new replies.

[oldandhappy]

16. And the argument about one or two spaces after a period!

[kentauros]

18. And when combined with an Oxford comma,

you get an Oxford space!